Velie v. Manufacturers' Accident Indemnity Co. of the United States’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 545 · 1889
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1943
2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Meyer v. Construction Co. · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Speck · Austin v. Gagan · Burck v. Taylor · Dixon v. Western Union Tel. Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is provided that a defendant, seeking to remove a cause from a state court to the federal court, may file his petition and bond therefor in the state court at or before the time when he is required, by the laws of the state or the rule of the state court in which such suit is brought, to answer or plead to the declaration or complaint of plaintiff. * * * Under the laws of this state [section 3552, Code of Iowa 1897] the defendant to an action brought in a court of record must” assail the petition by motion or demurrer, or take action “upon it by answer before noon of the second day of the term. By Code, § 3554, the court is authorized to extend the time for filing any pleading beyond that fixed by the statute, having due regard to making up the issues at the earliest time practicable. In the case at bar, it will be observed that the application for removal was not filed until some.30 days after the second day of the term; but it is the claim of the appellant that the granting of further time to plead to the.petition had the effect to extend the time in which application for a removal to the federal court could properly be made. * * * It is to he conceded that this proposition finds support in the decisions of some of the inferior federal courts, but we are persuaded that it is clearly against the weight of authority, and cannot be upheld by any fair construction of the federal statute. There is but one time fixed by our Code before which the defendant duly served with not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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